I liked Alan's encounter with the nurse. The fact that people are always saying that Charlie hid inside his math and didn't see his mother at the end always made me sad. I'm glad you put in for extra time with her.

This is a beautiful story that made me think, both sadly and warmly, of my relationship with my own brother and my own late mother. You do a lovely job of capturing the fragile, emerging tenderness between Charlie and Don, and the revelation at the end felt true and surprising at the same time. Bravo.